It's finally time to meet the Great British Bake Off class of 2024, featuring a retail assistant and a car mechanic.

The contestants will be competing to impress judges Dame Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood across a series of challenges where they will be tasked with baking cakes, biscuits and breads, among other tasty creations, in a bid to be named Bake Off champion.

Among the bakers are former nail technician Hazel, who is the group’s oldest baker at 71, and dentistry student Sumayah, who, at the age of 19, is the youngest contestant competing this year.

But who will have the first soggy bottom of the series and who will create the most impressive showstopper?

Let's meet the bakers taking part in the 15th season on Channel 4, hosted by none other than Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding.

Great British Bake Off 2024 line-up 

  • Andy - 54, car mechanic from Essex
  • Christiaan - 22, menswear designer from the Netherlands
  • Sumayah - 19, dentistry student from Lancashire
  • Dylan - 20, retail temp from Buckinghamshire
  • Georgie - 34, paediatric nurse from Carmarthenshire
  • Gill - 53, senior category manager from Lancashire
  • Hazel - 71, former nail technician from Kent
  • Illiyin - 31, birth trauma specialist midwife from Norfolk
  • Jeff - 67, former university lecturer from New York
  • Mike - 29, farm manager from Wiltshire
  • Nelly - 44, palliative care assistant from Slovakia
  • John - 37, directorate support manager from the West Midlands
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Gill said she had just attended a funeral when she found out she would be part of the show.

“I heard my phone vibrating in my bag”, she explained.

“I couldn’t call back straight away but I ended up pulling over to the side of the road on my drive home as I couldn’t wait any longer."

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Meanwhile, Andy shared that the show “probably came at the worst ever time” as his father-in-law was on end-of-life treatment while his mother-in-law was suffering from Alzheimer’s.

Speaking about the call he received, he said: “I was en route to see him at the time. I pulled over and just screamed of joy, what an absolute dream.”

This year, Bake Off will premiere on Tuesday, September 24 on Channel 4 at 8pm.